Definition of "Qian"

Based on their research we might venture to identify the wine-merchant in the Rietberg Museum as a member of one of the eastern Iranian city-states. He has an oval face, a pronounced hawk’s nose, deep-set, bulging eyes with bushy eyebrows separated by a deep vertical crease, and a broad mouth with fleshy lips. His facial features are reminiscent of those of one of the three envoys anxiously waiting to be greeted by Chinese court officials in the painting on the east wall toward the mortuary chambers in Li Hsien’s or Prince Chang-huai’s (A.D 654-684) tomb at the imperial cemetery in present Ch’ien County, Shensi Province.]

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In Qian county, Shaanxi-which until 1982 was classified as a chronically poor county - the guidelines laid down for commune leaders by county officials are as follows:[...]Thus in Team No. 3, Zhang Jia Bu Brigade, Qian Ling Commune of Qian county, there is 2.19 mou of collective land per head and we found that this land is indeed allocated on a 50-50 basis.

1984, Keith Griffin, “Epilogue: Rural China in 1983”, in Keith Griffin, editor, Institutional Reform and Economic Development in the Chinese Countryside‎, page 307

Earlier this year Zhang used the internet to help farmers in Qian county, Shaanxi, find buyers for 3,000 tonnes of pears that would otherwise have spoiled.

2015 August 12, Tom Phillips, Luna Lin, “Fighting food waste: four stories from around the world”, in The Guardian‎, archived from the original on 15 August 2015‎